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Essay on Gay Marriage Should be Allowed
Many opponents of gay marriage argue that allowing gays to marry hurts the sanctity of marriage. Would that be the sanctity of the 56 percent divorce rate of heterosexual couples? Some studies show that gay couples have longer-lasting relationships than heterosexuals. Not allowing gay marriages is a step back for society. In our efforts to be progressive, we should respect that gay marriages are a human right and should therefore be recognized. Gay couples are not different than heterosexual couples: They are parents, sons and daughters, and contributing members to society.
Many homosexual couples have children from previous marriages or adoption, and a legally recognized marriage could only benefit them as a family. In addition, amending the Constitution in order to ban gay marriages indefinitely is asinine. Amending the Constitution cheapens the document. The Constitution guarantees equal rights for all people, and that includes the right for homosexuals to marry. (BOB EDWARDS)
The problem of gay marriage brings to a head, like few extra issues of our time, a vital clash between two moral positions that relate like seismic plates beneath the surface of modern American biased life. It is usually thought that the matter of gay marriage pits worldly liberals against religious conservatives. At the same time as this understanding is accurate up to a point, it is also critically confusing. The most obstinate and intractable opponents in the inconsistency are both in their way sectarian.
The question over gay marriage is at present polarized by these two sectarian forces. It would be politically valuable to describe a fully broadminded approach that is fair to both. Such an approach would include them in the ongoing and usually productive compromise between revealed religion and the principles of individual rights and freedoms from which the United States has traditionally drawn potency......
